1/ THREAD: Neville Chamberlain believed he had reached an agreement for "Peace for our time" with Adolf Hitler. He meant well, but was as wrong as he could be. He, and for a short time, much of the world, were deceived.
2/ "We cannot negotiate with people who say what's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable".
John F. Kennedy
25 July 1961
Regarding the Soviets and the Berlin Crisis
3/ And lest we forget, humanity's ability to successfully address and solve the #ClimateCrisis is irretrievably linked to our ability to defeat Fascism.
4/ Democracy rests on the edge of a knife — and the consequences are about as dire as they can be. If the U.S. veers away from Fascism, so too will much of the world. But if the U.S. falls into Fascism, much of the world will probably follow.
5/ FACT: We are, by definition, delusional if we insist on being bipartisan with the Sociopathic/Psychopathic (APD).
(Read this sentence over and over. Let it sink in. Never forget it.)
6/ We must see the Republicans as they are now — not as they were in the 1950s, 60s, 70s, or 80s — or how we wish they would be.
7/ Let us learn from Neville Chamberlain's mistake. The survival of Democracy and the World demands the scales fall from our eyes.
We cannot — we must not, negotiate with those who will shake hands with their right, while their left hand hides a knife behind their backs.
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2/ Closing one's eyelids during a hug is a manifestation of sincerity and depth of affection. This phenomenon is even holds true across species.
3/ 90% of our sensory input is visual, so that means that the other 4 senses (although there are other senses) must share the remaining 10% of sensory input.
2/ The above, now infamous photo, is Senator Josh Hawley at the US Capitol. It was captured by photographer Francis Chung (E & E News) who reported that Hawley was entering the building at 12:25 pm EST.
3/ Trump was still speaking at the Ellipse (he began speaking there at 11:58 and would finish at 1:12 pm). The first barriers at the Capitol were breached at 12:53 pm.
2/ What do you think about the above image of Phil Valentine? This was most probably, a professionally photographed headshot — however, this specific facial expression, whether it was professionally directed or otherwise, was profoundly ill-advised.
3/ Does this facial expression trigger you? Do you find it friendly? Is this a sincere smile? Is this a smile at all?
2/ Having evaluated Ted' Cruz's body language for over a decade, one thing is clear in this moment: The facial expression Ted Cruz is expressing in this moment is one of his very few default faces.
3/ When a person has very little facial expression variation (lots of repetition) one of the first things that should spring to mind is, "Is this person a sociopath/psychopath (Antisocial Personality Disorder [APD])? The answer is with significant possibility, "Yes".
2/ On Wednesday evening, 18 August 2021, Marjorie Taylor Greene published the above video on her GETTR social media account. (GETTR is a twitter knockoff, founded by former Trump advisor, Jason Miller, targeted to the American Alt-Right.)
3/ In the ~4.1 second video, Congressperson Greene says, "Joe Biden, you're not a president, you're a piece of shit!"
The following is a nonverbal, verbal, and paralanguage analysis of this short video.